The Power of the Agile Business Analyst, second edition

The article is a description of the Power Query technology training methodology implemented within the framework of the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education 3++ taking into account professional standards in the direction of the bachelor’s program “Business Informatics”. The authors propose a set of laboratory works in the form of situational tasks and cases that allow to create professional competencies and labor functions of a future specialist (business analyst) as part of the development of the ETL process for processing data using Power Query technology. The use of situational tasks and cases allows to effectively implement the development of a set of professional competencies, which are elements of generalized labor functions, without tying the material in question specifically to any discipline. As part of the implementation of situational tasks and cases described in the article, bachelors not only learn to use the basic elements of Power Query technology, but also gain the skills and abilities associated with the application of the studied technology in performing standard professional tasks stipulated by a professional standard. The format for describing the methodology is presented in the form of the traditional “Key-by-Key” technology, widely used in obtaining professional IT competencies.

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Business Analyst Online

The Charleston Advisor ◽

10.5260/chara.13.3.10 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 10-14

Author(s):

Jason Sokoloff ◽

Amanda Hedrick

Keyword(s):

Business Analyst

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A mathematical model to evaluate return on investment in higher education

Economic Analysis Theory and Practice ◽

10.24891/ea.20.4.772 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 772-788

Author(s):

Valeriya S. ARTEEVA ◽

Angi E. SKHVEDIANI

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Mathematical Model ◽

Business Processes ◽

Management Decision ◽

Peter The Great ◽

Organizational Competencies ◽

Management Decision Making ◽

Documentation Systems ◽

Three Stages ◽

Business Analyst

Subject. The article assesses the effectiveness of investments in higher education. Objectives. The aim is to assess the performance of investments in higher education for a Master’s student at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, in the field of Economics, Business Analyst Specialty. Methods. The methodology, presented in the study, includes three stages. The first assesses the demand for skills, the second assesses how the supply of skills match the demand, and the third – the effectiveness of investments in higher education, based on the developed mathematical model, scenario analysis, and decision tree. Results. We revealed that for a business analyst, the most important categories of skills are project management, decision-making, organizational competencies, communication, and knowledge of corporate software. The most required skills in these categories are the knowledge of business processes, project documentation, systems thinking, teamwork, communication, and well-bred speech. The analysis of correspondence between the competencies required by employers and those acquired in the training process showed that Master’s graduates meet the demand for the position of a business analyst in the labor market by 69%. Conclusions. The evaluation of the effectiveness of investment in higher education for a Master’s student of the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, in the field of Economics, Business Analyst Specialty, shows that it is more profitable for a Bachelor graduate to continue studying for a Master's degree, rather than go straight to work.

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Skills and Competencies Required for Jobs in Business Analytics

International Journal of Business Intelligence Research ◽

10.4018/ijbir.2017010101 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 1-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Linda A. Leon ◽

Kala Chand Seal ◽

Zbigniew H. Przasnyski ◽

Ian Wiedenman

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Human Resources ◽

Data Analytics ◽

Career Planning ◽

Business Analytics ◽

High Demand ◽

Data Analyst ◽

Job Advertisements ◽

Data Scientist ◽

Business Analyst

The explosive growth of business analytics has created a high demand for individuals who can help organizations gain competitive advantage by extracting business knowledge from data. What types of jobs satisfy this demand and what types of skills should individuals possess to satisfy this huge and growing demand? The authors perform a content analysis of 958 job advertisements posted during 2014-2015 for four types of positions: business analyst, data analyst, data scientist, and data analytics manager. They use a text mining approach to identify the skills needed for these job types and identify six distinct broad competencies. They also identify the competencies unique to a particular type of job and those common to all job types. Their job type categorization provides a framework that organizations can use to inventory their existing workforce competencies in order to identify critical future human resources. It can also guide individual professionals with their career planning as well as academic institutions in assessing and advancing their business analytics curricula.

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PECULIARITIES OF USING BUSINESS ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES IN ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC-19

Market Infrastructure ◽

10.32843/infrastruct55-17 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Kateryna Kompanets ◽

Liliia Lytvyshko ◽

Mykola Horodetskyy

Keyword(s):

Process Management ◽

Business Processes ◽

Critical Conditions ◽

Enterprise Management ◽

Transport Sector ◽

Motor Transport ◽

Software Products ◽

Administrative Management ◽

Business Analyst ◽

Trucking Companies

The current state of motor transport enterprises, which is characterized by negative dynamics of development in all sectors of the transport sector, is studied. The research of scientific works determined the direction of the article and the object of research was business processes in administrative management. That is, it is impossible not to agree with the authors to solve the crisis of modern enterprises. It should be noted that all of them are solved through the mechanisms of the administrative management system. Therefore, it became necessary to form conceptual features of the use of business analyst in administrative management during the Covid pandemic 19. Modern approaches to administrative management are considered, providing reliable administrative management of the motor transport enterprise. Management of business processes in motor transport enterprises of business provides their constant improvement and optimization therefore the most important tools of process management are approaches and methods of improvement of business processes managed by administrative management systems. The researched approaches are aimed at identifying duplication of functions, bottlenecks, cost centers, quality of individual operations, missing information, the possibility of automation and quality management. The main directions and software products for automation of business processes in the system of administrative management are established. It is proved that the holistic application of approaches and elements of business analyst in the administrative management of the enterprise will lead to great chances of maintaining the competitiveness of motor transport enterprises and ways out of the post-crisis crisis. The measures of administrative management concerning improvement of activity of the motor transport enterprises are offered. Therefore, in order for trucking companies to develop and differ from their competitors in the level of services provided and the level of comfort, in the critical conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic it is necessary to radically change the methods of administrative management, ie reengineer business processes.

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